Squeeze are great - I love 'Up The Junction'. Big Star are another brilliant, little known band.
At The Drive-In should have taken over the world but split up instead. Relationship Of Command is in my top 5 albums - I smell another thread...

Pacino86845 wrote:I should just go around copy pasting all these musical suggestions you guys keep making all over the place and checking out some of these groups you list, I haven't even heard of most of these.

I have discovered so much good stuff thanks internet (esp. forum based) recommendations - no way would I have come across them anywhere else. I can't imagine life without Edan, Fingathing or Joanna Newsom.

Tell a me you are a making with a the funny right? A 'cos I only a know a the Afternoon Delight... Did a they really do more that is a deserving of a the praise?

They had their own summer show in 1977, moving from fair to festival to other outdoor fun venue, if I recall correctly. David Letterman was a writer and performer, along with Mark Russel, Jeff Altman and Phil Proctor.

Not the first time the supporting players outshone the stars.

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky

Tell a me you are a making with a the funny right? A 'cos I only a know a the Afternoon Delight... Did a they really do more that is a deserving of a the praise?

They had their own summer show in 1977, moving from fair to festival to other outdoor fun venue, if I recall correctly. David Letterman was a writer and performer, along with Mark Russel, Jeff Altman and Phil Proctor.

Not the first time the supporting players outshone the stars.

I thought I had a head full of random music trivia, but in the last two days you've pulled out Richard Marx's "Hazzard" video, and the Starland Vocal Band's variety show. You are truly the music minutia master!

Most Underrated Band:
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire
http://www.andrewbird.netactually the bowl of fire is no longer existant, but they had three of the most amazing records of the last ten years. He (bird) is still writing and performing as andrew bird, and he is absolutely incredible. truly moving stuff. i fail to understand how his stuff is not appreciated by more people.

Brocktune wrote:Most Underrated Band:Andrew Bird's Bowl of Firehttp://www.andrewbird.netactually the bowl of fire is no longer existant, but they had three of the most amazing records of the last ten years. He (bird) is still writing and performing as andrew bird, and he is absolutely incredible. truly moving stuff. i fail to understand how his stuff is not appreciated by more people.

A Nervous Tic of Motion Of The Head To The Left is a great song. Wasn't he the lead singer of Squirrel Nut Zippers?

no, but he was their violin player without being an official touring member. i love the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and yet i feel that all of Birds work has been superior to anything the zippers did. I mean, that ep "Weather Systems" that he did. rarely will you come across a record so emotionally gripping and sincere without the lyrics being over the top and cheesy and well, downright melodramatic. thats not to say his other work is inferior. im glad youve heard of him. if you have the chance to see him live, do it, he is awesome. The drummer for the Bowl of Fire, is still the sometimes drummer for the solo bird, and he too is amazing. one of the top 5 drummers of all time for me. incidentally, Jimbo Mathus, Tom Maxwell, and Katherine Whalen were the 3 different vocalists for the Zippers.

St. Alphonzo wrote:I thought I had a head full of random music trivia, but in the last two days you've pulled out Richard Marx's "Hazzard" video, and the Starland Vocal Band's variety show. You are truly the music minutia master!

Thanks, but I can't take all the credit. You may recall that my memory of "Hazzard" was piqued by another Zoner's reference to the song, so I only get half score for that.

I remember the SVB show because I watched a few episodes. Letterman's presence escaped me until maybe 10 years ago when I saw a clip somewhere. He also was in Mary Tyler Moore's variety series. And Jeff Altman was the non-interpreter on "Pink Lady and Jeff."

In the days before the electronic database kiosk, when I sold records, one of my managers called me "The Human Phonolog." He was being kind, but I do have far too much nonsense stuffed in my brain.

And remember, Alphonzo -- I learned what I have by living through most of this shit. Once you've heard "Quick Joey Small" by The Kasenetz-Katz (sp?) Singing Orchestral Circus a few times, your brain is permanently traumatized. Maybe that explains why I kept the single for over 25 years.

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky

St. Alphonzo wrote:I thought I had a head full of random music trivia, but in the last two days you've pulled out Richard Marx's "Hazzard" video, and the Starland Vocal Band's variety show. You are truly the music minutia master!

And remember, Alphonzo -- I learned what I have by living through most of this shit. Once you've heard "Quick Joey Small" by The Kasenetz-Katz (sp?) Singing Orchestral Circus a few times, your brain is permanently traumatized. Maybe that explains why I kept the single for over 25 years.

Everything I know I learned by listenting to "Pac Man Fever" by Buckner and Garcia.

St. Alphonzo wrote:I thought I had a head full of random music trivia, but in the last two days you've pulled out Richard Marx's "Hazzard" video, and the Starland Vocal Band's variety show. You are truly the music minutia master!

And remember, Alphonzo -- I learned what I have by living through most of this shit. Once you've heard "Quick Joey Small" by The Kasenetz-Katz (sp?) Singing Orchestral Circus a few times, your brain is permanently traumatized. Maybe that explains why I kept the single for over 25 years.

Everything I know I learned by listenting to "Pac Man Fever" by Buckner and Garcia.

It ain't no "Curly Shuffle," but it'll do.

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky

St. Alphonzo wrote:I thought I had a head full of random music trivia, but in the last two days you've pulled out Richard Marx's "Hazzard" video, and the Starland Vocal Band's variety show. You are truly the music minutia master!

And remember, Alphonzo -- I learned what I have by living through most of this shit. Once you've heard "Quick Joey Small" by The Kasenetz-Katz (sp?) Singing Orchestral Circus a few times, your brain is permanently traumatized. Maybe that explains why I kept the single for over 25 years.

Everything I know I learned by listenting to "Pac Man Fever" by Buckner and Garcia.

the super bowl shuffle. hahaha. anybody remember the video for that song? my friend and i always laugh at it, because right up in the front of the rest of the bears, are McMahon, The Fridge, Sweetness, and then the fucking kicker. scrawny old number 4. i dont know why that was always so funny. i guess you can tell how my friend and i feel about kickers.